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Mods for Drifting

Hey everyone, I'm saving up to buy a WRX hopefully by about March or April. I hope on doing some rally type things and also I really wanna do some drifting. I know WRXs aren't too good for drifting on pavement stock due to them being AWD, but I'd like to know what I'd have to mod or upgrade to give it enough power to drift on pavement. While I'm here I'm just curious as to how fast tires will wear out for someone who drifts aggresively a fair amount. Thanks a lot!

Well...you'd need to disengage the front part of the drive train and probably swap it to something more free spinning. Remove the center differential and fabricate some kind of new rear drive shaft that connects directly to the transmission. Then to top it off, you definitely need to have an LSD in the back (STI rear diff might work)...thats just what I know initially...

If someone wants to make that ^^^ technical, go for it

Personally...buy a 350z, Supra, RX-7/8, 240sx for Silvia conversion, Old school Toyota AE86, Mustang, Camaro, Firebird, etc...you'd be WAY better off and it would be cheaper.

on D1 drifting the team orange have rear wheel drive STi he kills everyone... ive seen it in person @ NJ D1 drifting, but the reason you buy subaru WRX is AWS system...kills anything from lunch lol but theres a thread making rear wheel drive ive seen it not too long ago, do little seach it all you need to do is disconect the front drive shaft, and do some custom job on the back

on D1 drifting the team orange have rear wheel drive STi he kills everyone... ive seen it in person @ NJ D1 drifting, but the reason you buy subaru WRX is AWS system...kills anything from lunch lol but theres a thread making rear wheel drive ive seen it not too long ago, do little seach it all you need to do is disconect the front drive shaft, and do some custom job on the back

Ok cool thanks for the help. I'm assuming AWS=All wheel steering but I had no idea that WRXs had that, cool. But anyways I'll do a search for that mod and check it out.

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I just think its retarded when people buy a AWD car and think they can go out and smoke the tires just like any other car.

Team Orange does compete in the D1 series, but their car(s) have been custom built and tuned. (are not AWD) I'm sure if you really wanted to buy a conversion kit/tune you could. But you'd be looking at close to what you payed for, for the car.

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